Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 253 297
Rank change year-on-year -89 +44 -4
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 612 568 657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.16% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.30% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 310 258 312
10th Percentile £36,750 £44,549 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,047 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.34% +0.07% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £104,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,108
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.51% -1.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,023 43,711 61,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.11% 89.05% 81.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,242 24,267 33,446
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,880 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 29 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -90 541 £60,000 -14.34% 1,601
London -31 317 £67,500 -15.63% 1,032
UK excluding London -132 233 £60,000 -4.00% 716
Work from Home -2 207 £59,338 -15.23% 634
North of England -46 64 £60,850 -16.07% 142
South East -98 55 £42,000 -32.80% 172
North West +5 49 £67,500 - 89
Midlands -47 37 £48,500 -19.83% 91
South West -73 33 £67,750 +19.39% 87
West Midlands -40 27 £48,500 -15.65% 55
East of England -38 24 £70,000 +6.87% 70
Yorkshire -37 14 £57,500 -26.98% 37
Scotland +16 13 £77,500 +82.35% 93
East Midlands -39 10 £38,347 -48.87% 36
Northern Ireland -87 4 - - 44
Wales -72 3 £65,000 +8.59% 19
North East -68 1 - - 16

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.19%) Confluence
2 21 (3.43%) CMS
3 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.49%) Drupal
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (5.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 29 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.14%) Moqups
6 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.82%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.33%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (4.58%) Workfront
2 13 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.82%) Shopify
5 4 (0.65%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.49%) iTrent
7 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.16%) Eikon
8 1 (0.16%) Magento
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.16%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.16%) RMDS
8 1 (0.16%) SAP ECC
8 1 (0.16%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (12.42%) AWS
2 75 (12.25%) SaaS
3 44 (7.19%) Azure
4 35 (5.72%) iPaaS
5 18 (2.94%) Figma
6 17 (2.78%) GCP
7 16 (2.61%) Power Platform
8 15 (2.45%) Google Workspace
9 11 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.47%) GitHub
10 9 (1.47%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.82%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (0.82%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.82%) Zapier
14 4 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.65%) Asana
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.37%) Broadband
2 30 (4.90%) HTTP
3 12 (1.96%) Firewall
4 10 (1.63%) WAN
5 8 (1.31%) DNS
6 7 (1.14%) LAN
6 7 (1.14%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.98%) DHCP
7 6 (0.98%) NX-OS
8 4 (0.65%) MPLS
8 4 (0.65%) Multicast
8 4 (0.65%) Network Security
8 4 (0.65%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) CTI
9 3 (0.49%) Intranet
9 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.49%) VSAT
9 3 (0.49%) WLAN
10 2 (0.33%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.21%) Metadata
2 15 (2.45%) Power BI
3 8 (1.31%) Big Data
4 7 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.49%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.33%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.16%) Db2
9 1 (0.16%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.16%) Redis
9 1 (0.16%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (11.93%) JIRA
2 11 (1.80%) Git
3 10 (1.63%) Claude Code
3 10 (1.63%) Selenium
4 9 (1.47%) GitLab
5 8 (1.31%) Postman
6 7 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 6 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.65%) JUnit
9 2 (0.33%) TestNG
10 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 185 (30.23%) Finance
3 181 (29.58%) Marketing
4 87 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
5 86 (14.05%) Law
6 75 (12.25%) Banking
7 74 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 56 (9.15%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (7.84%) Retail
10 42 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (5.56%) Manufacturing
13 33 (5.39%) Public Sector
14 25 (4.08%) Legal
15 20 (3.27%) Telecoms
16 19 (3.10%) Electronics
17 18 (2.94%) Publishing
18 14 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
19 11 (1.80%) Financial Institution
20 9 (1.47%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 162 (26.47%) Product Manager
2 93 (15.20%) Lead
3 74 (12.09%) Senior
4 61 (9.97%) Product Owner
5 48 (7.84%) Software Engineer
6 36 (5.88%) Senior Manager
7 35 (5.72%) Lead Software Engineer
8 31 (5.07%) Development Engineer
8 31 (5.07%) Software Development Engineer
9 24 (3.92%) Senior Product Manager
10 23 (3.76%) Product Lead
11 16 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (2.61%) Technical Manager
12 15 (2.45%) Development Manager
13 14 (2.29%) Architect
14 12 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
14 12 (1.96%) Platform Manager
14 12 (1.96%) Project Manager
14 12 (1.96%) Technical Engineer
15 11 (1.80%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.54%) REST
2 17 (2.78%) HTML
3 15 (2.45%) Google Maps API
4 14 (2.29%) Terraform
5 13 (2.12%) React
6 9 (1.47%) LangChain
6 9 (1.47%) XML
7 8 (1.31%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.31%) TensorFlow
8 6 (0.98%) Pandas
8 6 (0.98%) Spring
9 5 (0.82%) CrewAI
9 5 (0.82%) CSS
9 5 (0.82%) LlamaIndex
9 5 (0.82%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.65%) LangGraph
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.65%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 192 (31.37%) Product Ownership
2 46 (7.52%) Social Media
3 37 (6.05%) Marketing Technology
4 35 (5.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 34 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 34 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 33 (5.39%) AI Agents
7 29 (4.74%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.10%) Cloud Native
9 16 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
9 16 (2.61%) Web Conferencing
10 15 (2.45%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (2.29%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (2.12%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
13 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
14 11 (1.80%) Blog
14 11 (1.80%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.78%) Linux
2 16 (2.61%) Windows
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.16%) Android
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) CentOS
5 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (54.41%) Roadmaps
2 225 (36.76%) Agile
3 173 (28.27%) Product Roadmap
4 159 (25.98%) AI
5 140 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 139 (22.71%) Decision-Making
7 115 (18.79%) Customer Experience
8 109 (17.81%) Product Vision
9 108 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (16.67%) User Stories
11 100 (16.34%) Product Strategy
12 99 (16.18%) Product Backlog
13 87 (14.22%) Software Engineering
14 86 (14.05%) Analytics
14 86 (14.05%) Project Management
15 74 (12.09%) Product Requirements
16 73 (11.93%) Mentoring
16 73 (11.93%) User Experience
17 68 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.01%) Java
2 41 (6.70%) Python
3 16 (2.61%) SQL
4 12 (1.96%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.80%) C++
5 11 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.47%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.82%) R
8 4 (0.65%) ABAP
8 4 (0.65%) Bash
8 4 (0.65%) C#
9 3 (0.49%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.49%) PHP
10 2 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.16%) Bicep
11 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 149 (24.35%) Degree
2 43 (7.03%) Master's Degree
3 33 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.07%) MBA
5 28 (4.58%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.80%) HND
8 10 (1.63%) HNC
8 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.47%) PhD
10 8 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.31%) PMP
11 7 (1.14%) CCNA
11 7 (1.14%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.98%) CSPO
12 6 (0.98%) MCSE
13 4 (0.65%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.65%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.21%) QA
2 20 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.29%) SLA
4 9 (1.47%) PMO
5 8 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.14%) GDPR
7 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.33%) DICOM
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
8 2 (0.33%) HL7
8 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.33%) NIST
8 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) PERC
9 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (1.47%) Docker
1 9 (1.47%) Firmware
1 9 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (0.98%) vSphere
3 5 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.16%) KVM
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (1.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.14%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.49%) WSUS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.16%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.16%) Ansible
5 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.16%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Kibana
5 1 (0.16%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (8.99%) Microsoft
2 38 (6.21%) Adobe
3 30 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 25 (4.08%) Google
5 17 (2.78%) OpenAI
6 16 (2.61%) Cisco
6 16 (2.61%) Facebook
7 12 (1.96%) Oracle
7 12 (1.96%) Workday
8 9 (1.47%) SAP
8 9 (1.47%) VMware
9 6 (0.98%) FIS
9 6 (0.98%) Juniper
10 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.65%) YouTube
12 3 (0.49%) Aderant
12 3 (0.49%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.49%) iManage
12 3 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.49%) Starlink